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[Zito @_Zeets]

Yeah, I’m sure that the authorities that protect and participate in the violence are going to investigate it. This is such a meaningless statement.

[Zito @_Zeets]

I don’t get this. Why is pushing and challenging Zohran on one of the biggest reasons why he was elected some kind of betrayal? Are centrists and Republicans the only people who have a right to criticize and influence politicians? You guys act like politicians are your friends.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers reportedly had a text thread competing to pull over the most Black drivers, while using racial slurs in discussions about force against Black residents. More than half a dozen officers have reportedly been recommended for termination or quit.

A badge should NEVER be a license for discrimination! These allegations call into question traffic stops and use-of-force incidents involving these officers!

[FOX Sports Radio @FoxSportsRadio]

"Deion Sanders is a SELLOUT to his OWN people" 😮

📺 @robparkerMLBbro and @Kdubblive discuss Deion Sanders doing a protect college sports ad @OddCoupleFSR 👀

[will @will_nba_hater]

Ted Cruz goes on college gameday and ABC refuses to air democratic senate candidate interviews and the median voter in this country genuinely believes “the left” controls the media lol

[grinch @Uncatfishable]

Pablo Torre really exposed a MAJOR issue in our overall society. Billionaires commit crimes and regular everyday folks really simp and protect them for no reason. What do you gain from defending Balmer and Kawhi? Lol

[Zito @_Zeets]

I’d also say this “it’s not popular” roadblock only applies to the left. Republicans, for example, ended Roe when the country overwhelmingly supported abortion rights. They didn’t care.

[josh! @queersocialism]

after the civil war, mass imagery of black people destitute, systematically excluded from civic participation, being killed by cops and found hung from trees by vigilante whites funded and supported by confederate capital and local police, didn’t force an immediate moral/political awakening.

it wasn’t until the cold war ramped up, and the united states was losing international appeal as the righteous alternative to growing global communist struggle, when the US would respond with civil rights concessions that would, in effect, leave many of the far-right and confederate forces that were murderously illiberal with a level of capital, power, and influence to spend the next half-century rolling back all the legislative gains of that period, with a continued significant base of support from the general populous.

this is the type of american liberal historical mythology about the civil rights period that has obscured more than it has clarified about the tumultuous bloodstained long 60s that remains severely unresolved on large account of the fact that cold war liberals, who were more invested in the maintenance of liberal imperial-capitalism than permanent transformation of the nations treatment of racial/ethnic minorities and its broader working-class, won out while those who saw those gains as impermanent & flimsy, were purged!

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Almost everything you are hearing in mainstream news about the supposed lack of popularity of progressive policies on police and prisons is a lie. Shifting resources from police/punishment to social services is one of the most consistently popular policies polled for 40 years.

[NOT Potato Bolshevik @NotPotBol]

It is funny how defund the police never actually happened anywhere and people are pretending like it went too far.

[Zito @_Zeets]

This is just insane shit

[Zito @_Zeets]

Every generation does respectability politics nonsense with black kids. And it starts with believing that they’re uniquely morally and socially deficient. When black kids are just like all other kids. The burden of racism should make you more sympathetic to them, not harsher.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Ahead of mounting labor violations, the private prison contractor GEO Group says it should be granted qualified immunity--the same tactic the police use to shield their officers from police brutality claims.

The company argued that, because they operate on behalf of the government, they should be treated as a public servant and therefore should be offered the same protections that “shield public officials from liability for misconduct, even when they have broken the law.”

https://t.co/WzeEYhaaY2

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

Egregious.

[Michael A. Young @RealMYoung23]

If you tried to get these guys (or pro athletes in general) to support a labor action or a protest organized by grassroots orgs they suddenly wouldn't have time.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Again, he gets graded on a curve. Dude is losing his shit because a reporter pushes back a bit on his lies, and he loses his temper, insults her, and walks out of the interview. And yet, he keeps being presented as a sane and normal person.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Punishing homeless children to show the world he is a better Christian than the Pope

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

New Jersey State Police set up an LED sign down the road near Delaney Hall that says “PROTEST PEACEFULLY” and then launched teargas at people for standing in the road NJSP has had shut down so people can protest in it.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Everyone needs to see what’s happening outside the ICE detention center Delaney Hall once media leaves at night.

Assaulting non violent protestors. Imagine what they do to detainees.